Traditional (Folk) Music
Music is part of a shepherd’s life both on weekdays and holidays.
Shepherds are good musicians. In the Rhodope mountains, you can hear Kaba gaida (bagpipe) or the melody of the kaval (pipe) from the valley, the competition between people from the mountains and people from the Thracian valley.
The bagpipe is a wind musical instrument. It is composed of a leather bag with two wooden tubes: a routchilo (blower) that produces a monotonous sound and a gaidounitza (pipe) that looks like a long whistle. Air is blown into the routchilo to play the bagpipe.
The kaval is also a wind musical instrument. It is composed of three separate wooden pipes and it looks like a shepherd’s whistle.
Bells are also a type of musical instrument. The shepherd can tell which one is his flock in the sheer mountain pastures by the song of the herd's bells. Tyumbeletzi and hlopatari (bells on livestock) are also part of the male Bulgarian ritual of winter masquerade Kukeri. The Kukeri wear belts around their waists adorned with a lot of different bells that ring during their energetic dances. It is believed their sound chases evil away.
*Find Kaba Gaida and Kaval in the room
End of the story Shepherd and Bride
Thank you for listening to the audio tour of the Regional Ethnographic Museum – Plovdiv. You are welcome to visit us again!
Shepherds are good musicians. In the Rhodope mountains, you can hear Kaba gaida (bagpipe) or the melody of the kaval (pipe) from the valley, the competition between people from the mountains and people from the Thracian valley.
The bagpipe is a wind musical instrument. It is composed of a leather bag with two wooden tubes: a routchilo (blower) that produces a monotonous sound and a gaidounitza (pipe) that looks like a long whistle. Air is blown into the routchilo to play the bagpipe.
The kaval is also a wind musical instrument. It is composed of three separate wooden pipes and it looks like a shepherd’s whistle.
Bells are also a type of musical instrument. The shepherd can tell which one is his flock in the sheer mountain pastures by the song of the herd's bells. Tyumbeletzi and hlopatari (bells on livestock) are also part of the male Bulgarian ritual of winter masquerade Kukeri. The Kukeri wear belts around their waists adorned with a lot of different bells that ring during their energetic dances. It is believed their sound chases evil away.
*Find Kaba Gaida and Kaval in the room
End of the story Shepherd and Bride
Thank you for listening to the audio tour of the Regional Ethnographic Museum – Plovdiv. You are welcome to visit us again!
!!! To hear the story from the beginning, walk back to hall № 1, „Agriculture”, 1st floor and start all over.
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